In June 2008, Mr. Donohue was appointed Babson College’s first Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He is primarily teaching, and conducting research, within the Olin Graduate School and Arthur Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, yet he will also lecture in the executive education program. In 2001, he was the Founder, Managing Partner and Chairman of Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, a pioneer in Clean Technology venture capital investing, which manages over $100,000,000. Clean Technologies include resource efficiency and productivity improvements in areas such as bio-materials, wastewater treatment and energy efficiency. Mr. Donohue sold most of his interests in Expansion Capital Partners in June 2008.
During the last twenty years, Mr. Donohue has built three successful investment management and financial service companies. He has a broad background in venture capital, both on the buy-side and sell-side, plus he has served in senior operational roles for venture-backed enterprises. He has been involved in growing over twenty venture capital backed enterprises. His career has focused on entrepreneurship, business management and investment in the areas of Clean Technology and socially responsible business. In the past, he has been a member of many for-profit boards, including Chairing five entrepreneurial Boards of Directors.
Mr. Donohue was a Founding Investor and served for six years on the Advisory Board of the Cleantech Group, LLC - the leading conference and knowledge organization in the sector. He has served in a variety of non-profit roles, including the “Micro-Credit Lending” Grant Committee of the Threshold Foundation. He was previously Chair of the Membership Committee for the Social Venture Network (the leading organization of executives furthering global sustainability) and a Trustee of the Temple of Understanding (America’s oldest interfaith educational organization). He currently serves on the Research Advisory Board for the show “Ethical Markets” on PBS, and he previously had a monthly radio feature on Sirius’s “Inside Wealth” program, which interviewed leading Cleantech entrepreneurs.
Mr. Donohue earned his BS in Investment Management, with honors, from Babson College in 1988. He has served on the college’s Board of Overseers since 2002. Mr. Donohue has been a leader in many Babson initiatives, such as founding and Chairing Babson’s first “Forum on Socially Responsible Business” in 1994, which organized thirty leading CEO’s and foundation Executive Directors to pass knowledge to 400 participating students. In 2007, 2008 and now 2009, he is the Chairman of Babson’s Entrepreneurial Energy Expo, which attracted over 400 attendees in 2008.
On a personal note, he resides in Boston and San Francisco. He has been life-partnered with attorney and psychologist, Pam Olsen, since 2003. He is also quite active in the lives of his two God Children, Martin and Ixchel McNeish.
